diff --git a/doc/projects.inc b/doc/projects.inc
index bde3112a84..0ee41e5412 100644
--- a/doc/projects.inc
+++ b/doc/projects.inc
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ $biomed = array(
             "http://boinc.umiacs.umd.edu/",
             tra("University of Maryland Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology"),
             tra("Life science research"),
-            tra("The Lattice Project supplies computing power to scientists at the University of Maryland studying evolutionary relationships based on DNA sequence data; bacterial, plasmid, and virus protein sequences; and biological diversity in nature reserves. "),
+            tra("The Lattice Project, developed and administered at the University of Maryland, supplies computing power to researchers worldwide who are studying evolutionary relationships using DNA and protein sequence data."),
             "lattice.gif",
             "",
             "Study evolution using genetics"
diff --git a/html/user/show_user.php b/html/user/show_user.php
index 494f425f30..d51c6f2a73 100644
--- a/html/user/show_user.php
+++ b/html/user/show_user.php
@@ -55,9 +55,6 @@ if ($format=="xml"){
 
     show_user_xml($user, $show_hosts);
 } else {
-    db_init();  // need to do this in any case,
-        // since show_user_summary_public() etc. accesses DB
-
     // The page may be presented in many different languages,
     // so here we cache the data instead
     //